Jerry Jones: Miles Austin, ‘our best route runner,’ returning should help Cowboys
By Mike Dyce
The Dallas Cowboys are struggling on offense. It can be in part because of poor decision making and execution, but it is also because they’re struggling with injuries on offense.
Wide receiver Miles Austin has been one of the players fighting injuries. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones thinks that Austin’s return to the offense could do wonders in reigniting the struggling unit.
“We’ve got to be able to pinpoint receivers, pinpoint the skills of those individuals and get the ball the them when we want to,” Jones said, via the Dallas Morning News. “We’re working on that and we should be and we’ll get better there. But Miles Austin is a big factor. He’s our best route runner. When they’re doubling, as they have been, your best receivers in Witten and certainly the 88 (Dez Bryant), what’s called for is a great route runner, and I would call him a great route runner, Miles. And so that should be of help to us.”
Austin has just 15 receptions for 125 yards on the season and he has yet to find the end zone. Most of that came against the New York Giants in the season opener, when he caught 10 passes for 72 yards. The Cowboys would at least want Austin on the field as a decoy if he is less than 100 percent.